JP_614
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Weather is nasty today. Yall drive safe
The Official DC/Maryland/Virginia Area Thread
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I’m out here walking in the rain to run some errands, someone at the liquor store said he saw 3 accidents already today
Kinda late but SMH@ that shooting at Jaspers and breh who pulled the trigger was flexing on sm even made donkey of the day
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I aint been out there in awhile but it is a classic black owned local spot....hopefully this doesn't effect their business..I know they got a loyal following and all but its still a bad look...
...I aint been out there in awhile but it is a classic black owned local spot....hopefully this doesn't effect their business..I know they got a loyal following and all but its still a bad look...
Its the first fine dining spot in rich ass PG CountyKinda late but SMH@ that shooting at Jaspers and breh who pulled the trigger was flexing on sm even made donkey of the day
I aint been out there in awhile but it is a classic black owned local spot....hopefully this doesn't effect their business..I know they got a loyal following and all but its still a bad look...
When shyt like this happens you understand the reluctance to build even in Nice areas like Largo or Lanham
This shis doesnt happen in Alexandria
Again it was a situation where a good brother met a broke c00n.
Again I lowkey understand the boule dudes you cant have c00n nikkas around
didn't even know that....Not surprising though people forget PG development is still recent not to long ago it was mostly hicksville nd open farmland..With that said all the times I been to jaspers its been a mixed black crowd and pretty chill...at the same time I never stayed to late either...Salute to homie for being a mentor but we don't know the whole story....the triggerman is a scumbag, at the same time we all seen what alcohol does to folks regardless of what type of people they are...
Laidbackman
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We moved to this area of PG when Lake Arbor was new, and it went under the name Newbridge. They use to have a golf course in that community. So this kinda news hits close to home, and it reminds me even more how much things gradually changed. When I was still young, and living out there, as soon as I got my first car, I spent most of my time going up and down 202, hanging in Palmer Park (where I spent a lot of my childhood with my cousins), Cheverly, and South Hyattsville/connected to North Brentwood, where I was raised after moving from NW. I didn't want to identify with anybody outside the Beltway on 202, which wasn't hard to do, because nobody came outside, and still don't. Plus there was nothing out there but the Capital Centre, now US Airways Arena. So I do remember when Jaspers, and BET SoundStage, weren't there. So I watched this area when it was on it's come up, and it depresses me to see how it changed, with all my close family and friends living in Bowie, Mitchellville, or Upper Marlboro.
But I'm not gonna lie, the last two times I was at Jaspers, it was a negative experience. One with my now deceased buddy, and the other, with a friend I'm still in touch with. Both incidents involved subpar service from a waitress. But compared to the rest of PG, this is still the prefered area, although what happen there with the brother getting gunned down was a big setback. When I go up that way for the upcoming holidays, I don't want that on my mind. So many people have passed away since I moved as it is, and the friends I do have, it's still not cool to contact them. Because I already know how it's gonna go. With me being retired for 18 years, and moving in a new house in Atlanta, it's gonna be, "Man, you ain't married yet?". And if I'm not seeing anybody, then that's gonna give them even more ammunition...knowing I could change that overnight, if I'm willing to marrying any ole girl just to say I'm married. But I thought by now, this would be no issue...but for some reason, it's a bigger issue to some...smh. Then if it's Sunday night, and we've been drinking, everybody gotta think about going to work the next morning with a hangover, except me. Then all off a sudden they're jealous, again! And the last time I hung out with any brother from the block, it was practically life threatening. I've could have sworn one of the older cats, the big brother of the block, wanted to stab me with his pitchfork, while he was barbecuing in the backyard. And the other brother nearly set me up to get run over by a car, while crossing a busy street. Needless to say, both of these older brothers who watched me grow up, are in their 60's, and living with a relative. As a matter of fact, the older one is now in his early 70's. Like when does the envy stop. It definitely shouldn't grow into playing games with my life. That's something I thought I'd never see from anybody off the block.
Now back to Jaspers. This was the same Jaspers that stayed opened while a woman's dead body was still in the women's restroom, after she suffered a heart attack. It happened two years ago. That was messed up too. To get on a better topic, I still remember the old Jaspers in the Greenbelt Shopping Center. That use to be the hook up spot for the Black University of Maryland Alumni, on homecoming night. Yes, I would see a lot of Blacks I went to college with, who grew up with Whites, and who thought I'd be locked up somewhere. But they couldn't help where they were raised. The good thing about them was, they were harmless, although some of them probably didn't like me too much down inside. My group would be the brothers from the hood, or the Black community...so we had our group as well. But both groups got along well with each other, and we always partied together. Going to that big White University, we had no choice. What was different about me was, I could tap the sisters going to Maryland from the White community, and the sisters going to Maryland from the Black community, and the sisters going to Maryland from the worst of the hoods. I could sorta identify with the ones going to Maryland from the White community, because I was once a minority in a mostly White school myself not long after I started grade school, until they started school busing. But these were poor White children I was going to school with. And I could identify with the sisters from the Black community going to Maryland, and from the worst of the hoods going to Maryland, because I was from both. Anyway, some of those brothers going to Maryland from the White community, lowkey didn't like how I could tap the girls who grew up around them with Whites, especially after I had once dropped out. I didn't notice this dislike until years later, after everybody went their ways. But it was only a few of them.
Now I see why this new Black Jaspers never became the new spot for the Black University of Maryland Alumni. Most of them where probably a little too White washed, and felt more comfortable at the old location in Greenbelt, which was much closer to the University of Maryland. As a matter of fact, this may have been what divided everybody, and why everybody stopped going to the Jaspers in Greenbelt...which led to the homecoming gathering being discontinued altogether. Tbh, I had already stopped going. I never really liked it, because all we'd do was gather together..it was boring to me. There was no music, and no dancing. Instead, they'd be playing backgammon, until it became the go-to place, and it got too crowded. A few years later, I had to move to Atlanta. With all said, I can't remember exactly what went down. Btw, I just did a google, and found out the Greenbelt location is closed. They may have closed before I even moved, and I just forgot.
Anyway, it seems like there's been a lot of bad things happening in the Largo and Bowie area lately. Not long ago, I read a 7 year-old was injured when she accidently shot herself, in the Lake Arbor area. And more recently, I heard a man was shot and killed in Largo, not far from PG Community College. I made my rounds at PG College too, back in the day.
But I'm not gonna lie, the last two times I was at Jaspers, it was a negative experience. One with my now deceased buddy, and the other, with a friend I'm still in touch with. Both incidents involved subpar service from a waitress. But compared to the rest of PG, this is still the prefered area, although what happen there with the brother getting gunned down was a big setback. When I go up that way for the upcoming holidays, I don't want that on my mind. So many people have passed away since I moved as it is, and the friends I do have, it's still not cool to contact them. Because I already know how it's gonna go. With me being retired for 18 years, and moving in a new house in Atlanta, it's gonna be, "Man, you ain't married yet?". And if I'm not seeing anybody, then that's gonna give them even more ammunition...knowing I could change that overnight, if I'm willing to marrying any ole girl just to say I'm married. But I thought by now, this would be no issue...but for some reason, it's a bigger issue to some...smh. Then if it's Sunday night, and we've been drinking, everybody gotta think about going to work the next morning with a hangover, except me. Then all off a sudden they're jealous, again! And the last time I hung out with any brother from the block, it was practically life threatening. I've could have sworn one of the older cats, the big brother of the block, wanted to stab me with his pitchfork, while he was barbecuing in the backyard. And the other brother nearly set me up to get run over by a car, while crossing a busy street. Needless to say, both of these older brothers who watched me grow up, are in their 60's, and living with a relative. As a matter of fact, the older one is now in his early 70's. Like when does the envy stop. It definitely shouldn't grow into playing games with my life. That's something I thought I'd never see from anybody off the block.
Now back to Jaspers. This was the same Jaspers that stayed opened while a woman's dead body was still in the women's restroom, after she suffered a heart attack. It happened two years ago. That was messed up too. To get on a better topic, I still remember the old Jaspers in the Greenbelt Shopping Center. That use to be the hook up spot for the Black University of Maryland Alumni, on homecoming night. Yes, I would see a lot of Blacks I went to college with, who grew up with Whites, and who thought I'd be locked up somewhere. But they couldn't help where they were raised. The good thing about them was, they were harmless, although some of them probably didn't like me too much down inside. My group would be the brothers from the hood, or the Black community...so we had our group as well. But both groups got along well with each other, and we always partied together. Going to that big White University, we had no choice. What was different about me was, I could tap the sisters going to Maryland from the White community, and the sisters going to Maryland from the Black community, and the sisters going to Maryland from the worst of the hoods. I could sorta identify with the ones going to Maryland from the White community, because I was once a minority in a mostly White school myself not long after I started grade school, until they started school busing. But these were poor White children I was going to school with. And I could identify with the sisters from the Black community going to Maryland, and from the worst of the hoods going to Maryland, because I was from both. Anyway, some of those brothers going to Maryland from the White community, lowkey didn't like how I could tap the girls who grew up around them with Whites, especially after I had once dropped out. I didn't notice this dislike until years later, after everybody went their ways. But it was only a few of them.
Now I see why this new Black Jaspers never became the new spot for the Black University of Maryland Alumni. Most of them where probably a little too White washed, and felt more comfortable at the old location in Greenbelt, which was much closer to the University of Maryland. As a matter of fact, this may have been what divided everybody, and why everybody stopped going to the Jaspers in Greenbelt...which led to the homecoming gathering being discontinued altogether. Tbh, I had already stopped going. I never really liked it, because all we'd do was gather together..it was boring to me. There was no music, and no dancing. Instead, they'd be playing backgammon, until it became the go-to place, and it got too crowded. A few years later, I had to move to Atlanta. With all said, I can't remember exactly what went down. Btw, I just did a google, and found out the Greenbelt location is closed. They may have closed before I even moved, and I just forgot.
Anyway, it seems like there's been a lot of bad things happening in the Largo and Bowie area lately. Not long ago, I read a 7 year-old was injured when she accidently shot herself, in the Lake Arbor area. And more recently, I heard a man was shot and killed in Largo, not far from PG Community College. I made my rounds at PG College too, back in the day.
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lochead
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You brought back memories. That Greenbelt Jaspers had the sista’s from Maryland and Bowie State
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the bossman
Superstar
Those seats are fire. With good ass foodSat in the VIP level at the Wizards game last night, came with unlimited food and beer & wine. The food was way better than the normal concourse food (meatloaf sliders, ribs, nacho station, carnitas, cakes, cookies…)
I’d probably do it again tbh, if you eat and drink enough, it’s probably cheaper than what’d you pay at the concession stands. The cheapest seats in this section for this season are about $300. I was directly behind the Wizards bench. Some annoying kids behind me kept trying to get the players attention…they finally got Jordan Poole’s and asked for his shoes. He said“can’t fit em”
Also: there was a lot of black excellence hanging out in the Monumental VIP lounge. Great opportunity for networking (and chances to dirty mack the players’ wives)
The promblem is Black are super down to have a nikka moment with a Black Man.
With that said all the times I been to jaspers its been a mixed black crowd and pretty chill...at the same time I never stayed to late either...Salute to homie for being a mentor but we don't know the whole story....the triggerman is a scumbag, at the same time we all seen what alcohol does to folks regardless of what type of people they are...
Since Ive been in the city I had a road rage incident and just last night some bytch got in a nikkas face at the EV charging station some other nikka intervened on her behalf and it was almost a crash out the nikka who intervened ended up apologizing to the other Breh
I wanted to say to the bytch you couldve gotten someone killed.
I dont know why nikkas are super aggressive with other Black people yet meek as a church mouse with everyone else.
In the situation at the restaurant homies was a security guard so he had it one him and used at a restaurant
Its hard to get a ccw in Maryland so the p*ssy nikkas knew that the other Brother was lacking
The whole city's motto is, "I wish you would..."
It's not just bad home training, lack of strong parents, and emotional immaturity/inability to handle stressful situations - but folks looking for a reason to turn up.
White folks just get an earful.
Black folks might catch a beatdown or worse.
Its why DC is the most policed city in the country.
But nikkas only do this to Black people
I heard there was a shootingat Iverson mall
nikkas tried to rob the shoe store.
Why dont nikkas try this at Landmark mall?
Because they know better.
Even more stark exa.ple Navy yard CVS has like no cashiers just self checkout
No self checkout at Minnesota ave CVS
Again just a simple lack of respect for Black people and Black authority
Haha, I seen a chick run out of this exact CVS with an armful of school supplies.
Maybe she had a paper due...
But this type of dysfunction....man I don't know why it hurts me so much to see Black folks engaging in it.
Tuesday, I'm over by South Capitol and Southern. See a breh rolling on the sidewalk with a stolen shopping cart and a bunch of boxes of potato chips.
Only 5 dollars*!
All I could do was shake my head. Cats just be down bad.
*almost bought some though...
You not lying about that. The first time I lived here in 2005 I just carried but now that I'm older and came back and tried to get one legally I was like wtf.
